I clicked to generate a bingo card and burst out in mad laughter when I saw "Talk to someone about end of life plans" - b/c that's been my biggest focus/source of frustration for the past month! :)
"Pick up a prescription for someone" just gave me a jolt of "THAT one would be hard!"
"Talk to someone about end of life plans" would have to... be situational. It's a conversation that could happen, but seems very intimidating to broach given the "shape" that conversations I'm in usually take.
"Set someone up on a date," oddly, does NOT have the automatic unnerving jolt of the prescription pickup one, but... it's something I've never done, and given how much I would LIKE to be useful in helping someone find a spouse, this one is probably intimidating in practice. (though, now that I think about it, I have tried to connect people with each other romantically at least 2 or 3 times.)
“Buy Nothing” groups are local groups organized via Facebook where people can offer things they don’t need to other people in their local community— with the stipulation that it’s for free.
Whenever I've done a buy nothing exchange it's almost always been in person. Only during lockdown did we do no-contact exchanges.
It's always such a pleasure to give things we don't need to a neighbor: old toys, furniture, kitchenware, kids' clothes. And sometimes we have received treasures too. It's almost always a pleasant interaction and it's been nice getting to know some of our neighbors.
We met the woman who lived across the back fence and over one when I passed on bags of outgrown clothes. Over the space of several years I handed on quite. a few clothes and also other random toys and things. They also had obnoxious dogs who barked nonstop at all hours of the day and night. Knowing her face to face didn't exactly make the dogs easier to bear, because they were truly awful, but it did mean that when I grumbled I knew exactly who I was grumbling about and could put a name and a face to it. And I also knew she had a bunch of kids and that she sometimes collected donations for women leaving abusive situations. I guess I'm trying to say I'd rather be frustrated with a neighbor who I know than to be raging at an unknown and nameless entity. It's harder to depersonalize someone whose kids are wearing your kids hand-me-downs. They've moved to a different town, hopefully to somewhere their dogs have more space to run and more room for the kids too. I don't miss the barking dogs, but I do miss seeing her occasionally and knowing I could do her a good turn.
I clicked to generate a bingo card and burst out in mad laughter when I saw "Talk to someone about end of life plans" - b/c that's been my biggest focus/source of frustration for the past month! :)
"Pick up a prescription for someone" just gave me a jolt of "THAT one would be hard!"
"Talk to someone about end of life plans" would have to... be situational. It's a conversation that could happen, but seems very intimidating to broach given the "shape" that conversations I'm in usually take.
"Set someone up on a date," oddly, does NOT have the automatic unnerving jolt of the prescription pickup one, but... it's something I've never done, and given how much I would LIKE to be useful in helping someone find a spouse, this one is probably intimidating in practice. (though, now that I think about it, I have tried to connect people with each other romantically at least 2 or 3 times.)
lol, I had *exactly* the same reactions!
What is "do a buy nothing drop off face to face"?
“Buy Nothing” groups are local groups organized via Facebook where people can offer things they don’t need to other people in their local community— with the stipulation that it’s for free.
But more and more since Covid, people do porch drop off/pick up where you just leave or grab things and never meet the person giving it to you!
Whenever I've done a buy nothing exchange it's almost always been in person. Only during lockdown did we do no-contact exchanges.
It's always such a pleasure to give things we don't need to a neighbor: old toys, furniture, kitchenware, kids' clothes. And sometimes we have received treasures too. It's almost always a pleasant interaction and it's been nice getting to know some of our neighbors.
We met the woman who lived across the back fence and over one when I passed on bags of outgrown clothes. Over the space of several years I handed on quite. a few clothes and also other random toys and things. They also had obnoxious dogs who barked nonstop at all hours of the day and night. Knowing her face to face didn't exactly make the dogs easier to bear, because they were truly awful, but it did mean that when I grumbled I knew exactly who I was grumbling about and could put a name and a face to it. And I also knew she had a bunch of kids and that she sometimes collected donations for women leaving abusive situations. I guess I'm trying to say I'd rather be frustrated with a neighbor who I know than to be raging at an unknown and nameless entity. It's harder to depersonalize someone whose kids are wearing your kids hand-me-downs. They've moved to a different town, hopefully to somewhere their dogs have more space to run and more room for the kids too. I don't miss the barking dogs, but I do miss seeing her occasionally and knowing I could do her a good turn.
Thanks!
1. Invite someone to your (messy) house.
2. Invite someone to your (messy) house
3. Invite someone to your (messy) house.
Invite someone to your (messy) house.
I needed this today! I’m a little anxious to ask my men’s group buddies for some DIY help for us nesting; this reminded me I’m proud to push through.